This document summarizes a presentation on auditing issues for cloud-based business services. The presentation covers fundamentals of cloud computing, compliance and auditing. It discusses challenges around cloud compliance related to data locality, multi-tenancy and data retention. The presentation aims to ensure security of consumer data, maintain compliance with privacy laws and prevent unauthorized access or transfer of customer data from cloud services.
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Auditing Issues for Cloud-based
Business Services
Jonathan Sinclair
SAP Research Belfast
UK
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Agenda
Fundamentals of Cloud, Compliance and Auditing
Cloud Compliance Challenges
Use Case: Future Healthcare and CRM
Compliance Auditing
Conclusions
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Fundamentals
Compliance
Compliance is defined as
being in accordance with
relevant governmental orindustrial laws, regulationsand standards through
governance processes.
Business Web
A business model and
technical framework that
represents a marketplace
allowing providers and
consumers to negotiate the
usage of products.
Clouds are a large pool of
easily usable and accessible
virtualized resources that
can be dynamically
reconfigured to adjust to a
variable load.
Cloud Computing
Auditing
The process of collecting and
evaluating evidence to
determine whether a
computer system (information
system) safeguards assets,
maintains data integrity,
achieves organizational goals
effectively and consumes
resources efficiently.
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Motivation, Problem Area
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions
Robert A. Humphrey
Customer Data
Legislation
Government
Auditor
Compliance CheckCompliance Report
Regulation
Regulator
creates creates
Businesses
have to
comply with
store and are
responsible for
use IT to improve
operations
IT Department
have to
comply with
Governance
Compliance
Customer Data
Legislation
Government
Auditor
Compliance CheckCompliance Report
Regulation
Regulator
creates creates
Businesses
have to
comply with
store and are
responsible for
use IT to improve
operations
IT Department
have to
comply with
Governance
Compliance
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Research Objectives
The locality of data is of key importance to adhere to legislation
Cross-jurisdictional conflictions
Performance and Availability
Disaster Recovery and Backup
Multi-tenancy and data accessibility
Company Multi-tenancy
Systems Multi-tenancy
Data Retention
Retaining data in the Cloud
Retaining data from the Cloud
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
Bertrand Russell
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CloudCloud
AuditorAuditor
Research Approach, Methodology
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted
Aldous Huxley
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Major Outcomes/Results
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works
John Gaule
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Conclusion and Outlook
Ensure the security of consumers data
Maintain compliance with data security / privacy laws
Assure that service providers, integrators or composers cannot
access data within a consumers service
transfer data from a consumers service
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking
Harold Fricklestein
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Thank You!
Jonathan Sinclair
Research Associate
SAP Research Belfast
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